West of Centre

"Jason Kenney's flying circus"


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Sun columnist Rick Bell used that term to describe the bumpy ride Alberta’s premier and his UCP are getting after an air travel controversy over the holidays. A minister and several UCP MLAs and staffers left the country despite months of government pleas to avoid non-essential travel. When CBC broke the first story, Albertans were furious. Jason Kenney took responsibility at a news conference on New Year’s Day, but that didn’t quell the rage. A few days later, the premier acknowledged the anger and accepted the resignation of his minister, stripped the MLAs of committee posts and fired his chief of staff. Host Kathleen Petty looks at whether there’s more turbulence ahead for Kenney with her guests Sun columnist Rick Bell, pollster Janet Brown of Janet Brown Opinion Research and political scientist Jared Wesley of the University of Alberta.
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